Word: chestnut
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...three months will the horse chestnut trees in the Champs Elysees raise their white candles in the sun, yet last week on the Place Vendome and Rue de la Paix, spring had already come. The closely guarded private openings of the grand couturiers were over. Buyers who had paid $100 per opening apiece to attend (refunded on the first order) streamed from Paris with orders for their employers and tips for newshawks on the new fashions. French actresses had been given their pick of free gowns for the spring season and the salons were opened for humble citizens who might...
...Harvard Lampoon, undergraduate humorous publication, has announced the appointment of the following officers: Sidney Carroll '34, of Brooklyn, New York, president; Richard John Walsh, Jr. '34, of Pelham, New York, Ibis; Harold Willis Nichols '34, of Cincinnati, Ohio, Treasurer; Andrew Eliot Ritchie, Jr. '34, of Chestnut Hill, Secretary; Robert Blaine Murray, Jr. '34 of Hampstead, Maryland, Circulation Manager. These officers will form the executive board of the Lampoon for the coming year, extending to January...
...author of the forensic witticism mentioned in the last paragraph was not Isaacs, but [Edward Henry, Lord] Carson. This is well-known and a constant subject of reference in after-dinner speeches-in other words, a Carson chestnut...
...Mite, who won the Killearn Farm Challenge Trophy; Mrs. Paul Moore's famed Seaton Pippin, world's champion hackney. Interest in the jumpers centered this year on the Irish Free State's string. Outstanding jumper from Ireland was Shannon Power, a 5-year-old chestnut gelding, winner of the $1,000 International Military Sweepstakes. As a 4-year-old-the bones of Irish horses develop early, thanks to limestone in their native soil-Shannon Power (named after a power-house on the Shannon river) won the Davis Cup at Toronto last year, starred in other international contests...
...curricula of liberal arts colleges for Negroes may be laughed at with the old chestnut, "Is Yo Did Yo Greek Yit?", the equally antiquated studies of "classical'' colleges for whites in the South might lead one to overhear a remark of this sort: "Ain't you-all done that thar Latting...